"The commander has an order, don't dare to hide and dare to escape, and correct the law on the spot" After Li Yan's personal soldiers went down, they first shouted loudly. Then the soldiers who were still dodging were whipped back with their scabbards.

For Li Yan's military order, the soldiers were still afraid. What's more important is that their families will be implicated because of their timidity, which they do not want to see. So they had to pretend to be brave and slowly return to the queue, and when the enemy's bullet fell, in order not to be killed, they could only pick it up and throw it away.

But after all, it was the first time, and some soldiers only thought about throwing away the bullets quickly, and just throwing them elsewhere. As a result, some of the bombs were dropped into other queues, and there was no time to be dropped again.

A rumbling explosion exploded through the ranks, and the wounded soldiers fell screaming, and the officers roared even more furiously, as the soldiers made the scene more chaotic and suffered more casualties.

Li Yan looked at the chaotic soldiers with a dark face. Let them face the enemy's rain of arrows, and perhaps they will be able to keep the queue tight. But when they were faced with the explosion of the bomb, they could no longer remain calm.

At this time, Liu Zongmin's subordinates took advantage of the chaos of Li Yan's troops and accelerated the speed of filling the trenches. The thieves quickly threw the small dirt bags into the moat, and at this time a rudimentary passage four or five zhang wide had been formed, and the soil bags had already exposed the surface of the river, and were still rapidly rising upward.

And Liu Zongmin's tricks have not been exhausted. In the distance on both sides of the tiger squat cannon, he gathered archers of 1,000 men each and began to shoot feather arrows at Li Yan's troops. He still hit the section of the Tiger Squat Cannon attack, as long as this section of Li Yan's defense was defeated, they could rush directly over.

The observer on the watchtower spotted the thief's archer and reported it loudly to the artillery commander below. However, at this time, they had just begun to fire shells at the enemy's Tiger Squat Cannon, and had not yet completely suppressed the enemy's Tiger Squat Cannon, and it was impossible to be distracted to suppress the enemy's archers.

The enemy archers fired very quickly, and as soon as the observers finished reporting, the rain of arrows fell. The soldiers, who were already panicked, were disturbed by the feather arrows and became even more panicked. In fact, they were all wearing chain mail and piercing armor, and the feather arrows were not too threatening to them, but under the double blow of the bullet and the feather arrows, they were on the verge of collapse.

At this time, Sun Tianyang came to the outside of Xicheng with a musket team, and Li Yan immediately ordered that the team that had been attacked by the thieves retreated. The musket team lined up on both sides of the gap, and two three-inch guns were also transferred nearby to block the road, and the remaining two continued to block the bridge over the moat.

At this time, he couldn't bring back two three-inch guns, and the other three sides also began to strengthen the filling of the trenches. To the east, in particular, three pathways have been filled in and the impact has already begun. Fortunately, the four additional artillery pieces were not able to make the thieves rush over. On the east, south, and north sides, there were too many corpses and dirt bags in front of the moat to push the earth-cart forward, so although the thieves intensified their attack, it was not yet critical.

Wang Renjie mobilized five tiger squat cannons each to suppress the two archers of the thieves. At this time, the enemy's tiger squat artillery firing position was finally shrouded by the explosion, and the artillerymen quickly put the firing bullet into the barrel to continue to strike at the enemy. Even if you can't destroy the enemy's tiger squat artillery, you must destroy the enemy's artillery to the greatest extent.

The panicked soldiers finally got the order to retreat and began to flee backwards quickly. However, the fastest soldier was stopped by Li Yan's own soldiers.

"Go back and bring the wounded"

"Bastard, what about your comrades, go and bring everyone back"

Amid the angry shouts of Li Yan's own soldiers, and the whipping of the scabbards, the soldiers finally turned around and carried back the wounded and corpses lying on the ground. Most of them were wounded, because they all had armor, some chainmail, some piercing. Only about two dozen unlucky ones died, who were hit in the neck and head by projectiles or feathered arrows.

However, this is not all the work of Li Yan's personal soldiers. At this time, in the place where they had been holding out, there were only a few feathered arrows falling from the sky, and those bullets were gone. The soldiers, who had noticed the change, finally stopped panicking and went back to bring out their comrades.

Although Liu Zongmin's tiger squat cannon was shrouded in the smoke and dust of the explosion at this time, there were few people alive. One of his archers was also scattered by Li Yan's artillery, and the other couldn't shoot a few arrows. But after he saw that Li Yan's troops finally stopped holding out and began to break back, he still laughed happily.

In the battle with Li Yan, this was the first time that Li Yan's troops were repulsed. He certainly had reason to rejoice.

"Let the kids get on." Liu Zongmin ordered proudly. At this time, Li Yan's two cannons had not yet been in place, and the defending soldiers had just been defeated, which was the best time.

As Liu Zongmin's order was passed down, those elite soldiers who had been prepared for a long time rushed forward from behind with shouts. All of them were wearing armor, and many of them were carrying shields, and they went straight to the passage that had just been filled. And in the direction of the bridge on the moat, there were also some elite soldiers who drove the homeless people to rush over to distract Li Yan's energy.

At this time, all the tiger squat cannons in the west of the city were used, and under Wang Renjie's order, projectiles were fired in the direction where the thieves came. The artillerymen quickly adjusted and fired their rounds at the entrance to the bridge and the passage. The two three-inch guns on the bridge finally came in handy, and they began to fire the shotguns that were ready to be fired in turn. And here, where the thieves have newly filled in the passage, two three-inch guns are being pushed into the right position by the artillerymen.

At this time, the musket teams lined up thirty paces on both sides of the passage began to fire at the elite thieves who rushed out of the smoke and dust of the explosion.

"Fire," the captains commanded in a loud voice.

"Bang", "bang", "bang" gunshots suddenly rang out, and one after another. Although it is not very noticeable in the sound of the explosion, the effect is obvious.

The musket team consisted of forty men in a platoon of ten, the first platoon was responsible for releasing the guns, and then handed the empty guns to the people behind them, while taking the loaded muskets and continuing to shoot. The second and third rows in the middle continued to pass the empty muskets backwards, while they also took the loaded muskets from the back row and held them in their hands, while the last row was responsible for reloading them.

The projectiles they fired hit the thieves' shields, and some of them pierced the shields and injured the thieves behind the shields. Others will crack the shield, which may shatter after the next hit.

Unprotected thieves, whether hit by lead bullets or shot with crossbow arrows, are seriously injured or killed. The armor on their bodies, at this distance, was completely unable to withstand the attack of projectiles and crossbow arrows.

However, the passage was wide enough for buckshot and crossbow arrows to penetrate the crowd, so the thieves who rushed to the outside of the passage suffered heavy casualties, but the people in the middle continued to rush forward. Although they will face casualties after the death and injury of their companions on the periphery, they will still be able to move forward eventually. Some of them still broke through the moat and finally set foot on the land inside the moat.

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